Welcome to Granite Tower.
Specializing in Software Quality.
Aside from our own tools and expertise,
we recommend the following books:
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Managing the Testing Process
At almost 500 pages, this is a bible of the
testing process; some would say the testing bible.
Works well either if you want to formalize the testing process
beginning to end, or just want to use it as a reference to shore up
practices and sub-processes.
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How to Break Software
This is a great companion to the above.
Self styled as A Practical Guide to Testing, this
introduces techniques and approaches that improves the quality and
productivity of testing efforts.
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The Mythical Man-Month
Particularly
recommended essays are The Tar Pit and the title
essay. The Mythical Man-Month essay contains the
classic Brooks Law: Adding manpower to
a late software project makes it later. |
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Software Project Survival Guide
This book bears reading cover-to-cover, but a
desperate QA manager or lead can read the following chapters for
ammunition: Section I, especially chapters 2, 3, 4 and 5;
chapter 9: Quality Assurance, chapter 15: Software
Testing and chapter 16: Software Release
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Explore our site with the links on the upper left. Below are a few quotes to brighten
your day.
All that you coded and all that you thought
and all that you tested and all that you wrought
and everything on your pc is in tune
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a
port,
and the bus is interrupted and the interrupt's not
caught,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.
from Peter van der Linden's "
Just Java", which is a great introduction to Java
The sad and sobering fact is, our current personal computers --
the Macintosh included -- are amazingly fragile nightmare kludges of
delicate interactions that only barely work right most of the time.
Steve Gibson
Although the Buddhists will tell you that
desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to
point the finger at system administration[IT]. Philip Greenspun
There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in
the history of computers. Steven Levy
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove
defective code. Richard Pattis
One test is worth a thousand expert opinions. Bill Nye
Software: These programs give instruction to the CPU, which
processes billions of tiny facts called bytes, and within a fraction of
a second it sends you an error message that requires you to call the
customer-support hot line and be placed on hold for approximately the
life-span of a caribou. Dave Barry
The problem with "Quick and Dirty" is that Dirty remains long
after Quick has been forgotten.
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